It soldiers into charged territory — weighted power dynamics in academia, sex, age gaps and class divides — with an unreliable and at times almost defiantly unlikable narrator at the helm.
Can you show this column to your wife? Many post-menopausal women have active romantic lives with their husbands, even though intercourse might take more effort than before.
I am not allowed to touch her because that would bring on a hot flash.
So one option is that your wife ask her gynecologist about hormone therapies that are not ingested.